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An exhibit called The Marzio Years charts the institution s explosive growth under his stewardship
Molly Glentzer December 29, 2020Updated: December 29, 2020, 8:30 pm
Peter C. Marzio served as director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts from 1982 until his death of cancer in 2010. In this photograph from early in his career, he stands next to Walter Ufer’s painting “Anna.” Photo: Timothy Bullard / Houston Chronicle
The late Peter Marzio used to answer humbly when people asked what drove his acquisition choices for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
“Well, you know, you can do the usual this is quality, this is provenance, this work is the right size, it addresses a gap or builds on strengths in the collection,” he might say. “But in the end, what really matters is, if a work of art makes me want to tap someone on the shoulder and say, ‘Look at that.’”
There will not be an agreement. but house speaker john bigger is digging in himself, admitting talks are going nowhere. speaker boehner also described the moment when secretary geithner first showed him the president s opening offer. i was just flabbergasted. i looked at him and said, you can t be serious. i ve just never seen anything like it. you know, we ve got seven weeks between election day and the end of the year. and three of those weeks have been wasted with this nonsense. right now i would say we re nowhere, period. we re nowhere. we ve put a serious offer on the table by putting revenues up there to try to get this question resolved. but the white house has responded with virtually nothing. they ve actually asked for more revenue than they ve been asking for the whole entire time. what are the chances we re going to go over the cliff? there s clearly a chance. lindsey graham said the same thing yesterday, michael steele. he said he thinks we are going to go over